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All appointments are 45 minutes by HIPAA-compliant teleconference.
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Topics and agenda are largely patient-guided, for what matters most to you.
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These consultations serve as supplements to (not replacements for) a primary care doctor or treating provider.
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Facing complex medical decisions and discerning next steps
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Prescribing or streamlining your supplements and food plan
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Reviewing past or recent labs through an integrative lens (labs from other providers or services)
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Accepting loss and transforming grief at the energy level
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Cultivating coherence -- and how this can amplify your healing
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Exploring different integrative treatment options
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Qigong coaching to deepen your healing potential
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Developing your intuition and self-healing techniques
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Suspected root cause(s) of disease
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Diet and other nutrient recommendations
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Broader and deeper interpretation of labs
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Therapeutic mind-body-spirit practices
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Recommendations for different healing modalities, if applicable
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Questions for you to discuss with your treating provider
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You can get a lot more from these sessions if you're familiar with the functional medicine "root-cause" approach, as well as coherence/flow basics.
Having read at least one of my books can be a great starting place. Hard copies are available at many local public libraries, and the free ebook is downloadable on this website. Or peruse the various podcasts on this website.
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Ordering new lab tests
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Prescribing or renewing medications
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Insurance billing -- instead, I can provide you with a superbill or receipt to send to your insurance or apply to your HSA account, but this kind of counseling/coaching service is generally not covered. Check with your carrier.
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This service is designed for self-motivated patients with good social support, for second opinions, or for exploration of new options. It's not a good fit if you're looking for closely supervised, ongoing treatment. Most patients follow up every 1 to 3 months.
This practice is modeled on the gift economy, with an aim to:
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Expand personalized care to a greater diversity of patients
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Reduce the financial stress associated with "deep medicine"
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Shift health care from an industry to a service
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Ground patient-doctor relationships in trust rather than transaction
While the market value of this 45-minute consultation is $250-350,
these appointments are offered on a sliding scale, starting at $150.
For those who can pay more, your generosity supports fellow sojourners who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford such care. This is a gift that recognizes that individual health and community health are inextricably linked. Each patient will receive the same quality of service regardless of the amount contributed.
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Consultations

Having over a decade of experience as an integrative and functional medicine doctor, and also having lived firsthand with complex autoimmune conditions (many of which have completely healed), I bring a unique combination of medical analysis and intuition in my assessments and recommendations.
My aim is to help you identify core imbalances and dysfunctional energy patterns, and support your healing process to open to greater flow. At the root level, mind, body, spirit are fully integrated.
Ultimately, healing is an act of creating new patterns in your body. So let's get creative!
If it feels like you've tried everything, from conventional to alternative therapies,
only to find you still aren't healing, you might benefit
from doing less, not more.
You might also focus less on what to heal, and more on how.
Most people say they want to heal.
Here's the deeper question:
"Are you ready to wake up to your whole self?"
Who Can Benefit Most from Medical Counseling or Coaching:
This service is designed for self-motivated patients with good social support, for second opinions, or for exploration of new options. It's not a good fit if you're looking for closely supervised, ongoing treatment. Most patients follow up every 1 to 3 months.
are unique to you. In general, there are 5 root causes of chronic disease:
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Poor Diet
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Allergens
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Pollutants
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Infections
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Stress (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual)
Healing is change, and change in the body demands change in our daily routines and choices.
Additional information: Frequently Asked Questions
What Are Your Fees?
This practice is modeled on the gift economy, with an aim to:
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Expand personalized care to a greater diversity of patients
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Reduce the financial stress associated with "deep medicine"
-
Shift health care from an industry to a service
-
Ground patient-doctor relationships in trust rather than transaction
While the market value of this 45-minute consultation is $375, these appointments are offered on a sliding scale from $150-375.*
For those who can pay more, your generosity supports others who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford such care. This is a gift that recognizes individual health and community health are inextricably linked.
Each patient will receive the same quality of service regardless of the amount contributed.
There are times in our lives when we give. And times when we receive.
The role you play in your health:
You are a full and equal, if not greater, co-participant in your healing journey.
Almost everyone wants to heal. The deeper question is,
Are you ready to make some great changes, and now?
We are all born with individual genetic susceptibilities and resiliencies, and chronic diseases are the result of cumulative stresses that play on your genes like a pianist at a keyboard, producing symptoms or diseases that